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ladyloveandjustice:ladyloveandjustice:headlessknight:adventuresofcomicbookgirl:boogieoogiepop:Fullmetal Alchemist, vol. 12 by Hiromu ArakawaHiromu Arakawa’s work with expressions is so great and sometimes the anime didn’t fully capture thatLike how the panels are framed, with Winry’s left eye vs Scar’s right, how Winry’s in darkness and Scar’s in the light, the uncomfortable closeup on both of them.Like Winry in this panel is FURIOUS. Just the shadowing on her face makes the difference. The shadow under her eyes gives a sense of strain. The shadowing on her face makes her look a little intimidating, ominous. It is beyond anything we’ve ever seen before. As the tears dribble off her face, she also breaks out in a cold sweat, but her teeth are gritted in rage.She’s terrifying in her anger. This is a girl who’s sad and scared but also angrier than she’s ever been in her life, angry enough to pick up a gun and consider doing something that would be the antithesis of everything she stands for. Because she wants her parents back, and she’s not going to get it, and goddammit that hurts so much she’s practically transported in her rage at the person who took them.Meanwhile, Scar. He’s still an imposing figure made of sharp lines. There’s some anger there as there always is, and shadow. But while everything’s coming to the surface for Winry. it’s almost like he’s restraining himself, bracing himself for what might come. Ready to accept it because he believes there’s no return for him, and it could only ever end with his death.That second-to-last paragraph is particularly interesting here, because it describes Scar as well. He was also tempted by the antithesis of what he stands for because he’s sad and angry and will never have his family back, and because the means to take revenge was right there. Unlike Winry, he didn’t stop in time.True! That really is what makes the conflict between them so interesting. They were tempted by the same thing.Really, it was that Winry still had family left, I think. She still has her home. She wasn’t persecuted either, like the Ishvalans were being persecuted, and had the means to continue her life. That’s why she was able to stop.And Winry still had people left to help her when she was at her lowest point. Scar didn’t have anyone with him until his Master came back into his life, until May came along and took it upon herself to help him. And look what an effect those people had on him.I’m going through my scar tag and i saw this and was like “wow this was good meta from this person” then i saw i had written it so i guess i just…complimented myself. anyway here’s a bonus where Scar thinks back to that exact moment:Winrys expression, her rage and pain, is so powerful and full of wrath here it actually disturbs Scar and makes him realize for the first time how truly frightening the hatred he feels is, how it looks to others. Even if Winry lacks his physical skills or stature, the power of that feeling in her makes her just as intimidating, just as scary, in that moment. In that moment, she lost everything else about herself and became nothing but her grief and her desire to hurt the cause of it. And it makes Scar realize how much he himself has changed, how completely that has consumed him. -- source link
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